Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and...

This book analyzes how and under what conditions collaborating corporations can effectively manage relationships with their suppliers in order to decrease the risk of suppliers’ noncompliance with codes of conduct and standards. In so doing, it represents an important addition to the...

This new book examines the relationship between agency theory and executive pay. It argues that while Jensen and Meckling (1976) were right in their analysis of the agency problem in public corporations they were wrong about the proposed solutions. Drawing on ideas from economics, psychology,...

This book examines trends and challenges in research on IT governance in public organizations, reporting innovative research and new insights in the theories, models and practices within the area. As we noticed, IT governance plays an important role in generating value from organization’s IT...

The book addresses the entrepreneurial origin of the capitalist firm and its asymmetric contractual relationships between capitalists, workers, managers and entrepreneurs, and explains the origin of the firm by focusing on entrepreneurship. A hidden action model shows how assigning residual...

Sebastian Burchhardt develops a game theory model that analyzes the possible behavioral patterns of employees during MA processes and the impact of such patterns on the success of the transaction itself. The result is the development of a principal-multi-agent model that allows for endogenous...

Relative Anreize bieten eine Möglichkeit kostenoptimale und leistungsfördernde Verträge für Manager zu gestalten. Es besteht allerdings das Risiko von Absprachen der Manager untereinander zu Ungunsten des Unternehmens. Oliver Strangfeld untersucht, unter welchen Voraussetzungen der Einsatz...

Hortense Tarrade analyses over 200,000 venture capital (VC) investments over the past 20 years to understand the investors' motivation to select national or foreign companies into their portfolio. She compares the sensitivity of US-based, non-US and German VC firms to the availability of local...

Analyse der Motivation von Aufsichtsräten aus ökonomischer und nicht-ökonomischer Perspektive -- Der symbolische Wert der Aufsichtsratsvergütung -- Die Exklusivität des Aufsichtsratsmandats.-Die Bedeutung intrinsischer Motivation.